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Word of the Day
… courtesy of Merriam Webster, with slight modifications by me: The Word of the Day for September 05, 2009 is: futurity • \fyoo-TOOR-uh-tee\ • noun *1 : time to come : future 2 : the quality or state … more →
Incorporeal Works
Online Etymology Dictionary
Brandon wrote 1 day ago: The Online Etymology Dictionary provides explanations for the origins of many English words as found … more →
Getting Blown
steyning wrote 1 day ago: A ‘guy’ used to be a strong, rebellious type and comes from the name Guy Fawkes, who in … more →
My Body Is a Cage, My Eyes Are the Windows
leilanidianne wrote 1 day ago: MY BODY IS A CAGE The word window comes from the Middle English windo e, itself derived from the O … more →
Etymology Day, Part 5
pepperedthought wrote 2 days ago: Another installment of word origins! Hapless – meaning “unfortunate,” first began … more →
Le mot alcool, (arabe : كحول [koḥôl], al...
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bertr2nd wrote 3 days ago: Le mot alcool, (arabe : كحول [koḥôl], alcool) provient d’une même racine (كحل [kaḥala], avoir … more →
Ban the F word
Doris wrote 3 days ago: Now I know that the etymology of the F word stretches back further than the elastic of my knickers b … more →
I Feel Nauseated Over This Nauseating Conversation About 'nauseous'
therealjorge wrote 3 days ago: It all started on Twitter, when my best friend, Ryan, posted a tweet about his disdain for sound equ … more →
what's in a name?
M wrote 5 days ago: One of my favorite quotes is from Milan Kundera: “We don’t know when our name came into … more →
WHAT’S IN A WORD: cornucopia
C. A. Kobu wrote 5 days ago: CORNUCOPIA WORD CLASS: noun MEANING: a classical motif in the form of a goat’s horn, out of wh … more →
mad as a hatter
LA Clark wrote 5 days ago: It isn’t a great mystery what is meant when someone calls you “mad as a hatter”. W … more →
getting off scot free
LA Clark wrote 5 days ago: “Getting of scot free” is used to refer to someone’s ability to get away with some … more →
saber rattling
LA Clark wrote 5 days ago: The term “saber rattling” refers to a show of power or threat to use force (usually mil … more →
pimp /pɪmp/
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russellcross wrote 5 days ago: I’m not a lawyer and more specifically not an intellectual property (IP) lawyer, but this part … more →
Da Loaf
evelynachapin wrote 1 week ago: How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex? — Julia Child Now for some word hi … more →
EPISODE 115 - Ladies' Night at Games Workshop
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helenzaltzman wrote 1 week ago: Hello hello hello! Contrary to what we said last week about releasing Episode 115 a day late, here w … more →
Word of the day
Mike Martinez wrote 1 week ago: conflate \kuhn-FLAYT\, transitive verb: 1. To bring together; to fuse together; to join or meld. 2. … more →
On Annoying Etymologies
grapplesauce wrote 1 week ago: Even in my ecofeminist literary criticism days, I never quite came out about how much masculine sexu … more →
Word of The Day
Sandra Parks wrote 1 week ago: Here is your word of the day. Enjoy and learn. devious PRONUNCIATION: (DEE-vee-uhs) MEANING: … more →
It matches...
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vaidehipatil wrote 1 week ago: ‘Maachis’ most probably comes from ‘matches’ … more →
